Illinois

Damaged remainder of building at 927 Collins St. torn down after being rendered unstable in devastating blaze.

The Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board held a hearing Friday to discuss the planned acquisition of Ascension Saint Joseph-Joliet hospital by Prime HealthCare.

The Will County Center for Community Concerns will provide holiday food baskets for 125 income-eligible families with children 16 years of age and younger.

A federal judge denied Illinois’ request to end court oversight of its disability services

The state board that has authority over hospital changes will hold the hearing in Joliet on the pending sale of Ascension Saint Joseph.

A federal judge in Rockford has declared a state law banning concealed firearms on public transit systems unconstitutional – at least as it applies to four individuals who challenged it in court. But the law remains in effect for everyone else

The Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police presented Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow with the award on Aug. 22 at the ILACP executive board meeting at the Midwest Security & Police Conference/Expo in Tinley Park.

A union representing employees at Stateville Correctional Center in Crest Hill remain uncertain as to what their future holds with the impending closure and rebuild of the prison.

Overall participation in labor unions has declined in recent years in Illinois, although the state has seen an increase in successful unionization efforts for the second year in a row

A former Joliet police officer who was convicted of domestic battery in 2023 has been indicted by a federal grand jury on drug trafficking charges.

A Joliet man charged with a robbery had been released from jail under an electronic monitoring court order in a separate gun-related case filed last year, court records show.

An Illinois law intended to help people with mental illness avoid confrontations with police had been on the books for three years when Sonya Massey was shot by a Sangamon County Sheriff’s deputy

Hard Rock Casino Rockford opened with a smash Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. Gov. JB Pritzker, Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen and others welcomed the new casino and live music venue in a raucous ceremony at the East State Street location.

A Lockport Township man who was previously convicted of possessing an AK-47 rifle has been arrested again on charges alleging he possessed a loaded 9 mm semiautomatic handgun in a vehicle.

Union objects to 'abrupt transfer' of inmates, threat to jobs as current Stateville facility to be demolished while new one is constructed,

A Will County judge found a defense motion for an alternate suspect in a Lockport case involving the homicide of a woman and her infant daughter too speculative to introduce to jurors at the upcoming trial.

Medical marijuana patients can now purchase cannabis grown by small businesses as part of their allotment, Illinois’ top cannabis regulator said, but smaller, newly licensed cannabis growers are still seeking greater access to the state’s medical marijuana customers

How Kamala Harris won loyal supporters in Illinois

The Illinois Tollway mobilizes special hot weather patrols whenever temperatures or heat indexes indicate conditions could be hazardous for drivers stopped along the road

A national blood shortage is expected to be worsened due to the excessive heat forecasted in the area over the next few days, the American Red Cross announced Monday. Those who can are encouraged to donate at their local blood drive.

Indige-Facts Exhibit will be held this fall at Isle a la Cache in Romeoville and features facts about contemporary Native Americans, terminology and population size to the sovereign rights of Native people.

With the heat index topping more than 105 degrees early this week, follow these tips from the Illinois State Veterinary Medical Association on caring for pets during excessive heat.

Hottest air of the summer to bake northern Illinois over the next 3 days, real feel temperatures to reach between 105-115

A law banning political parties from waiting until after the primary election to place a state legislative candidate on the general election ballot won’t keep any Republicans from running this November.

A Will County lawsuit claims a New Lenox Township trustee subjected a woman to doxing and defamation with a fake post published on a Republican Facebook group.

With Illinois already a reliable Democratic state, at least as far as the presidential race is concerned, state party chair Lisa Hernandez said the state party has plans to make strategic investments outside of Illinois

Five men have been charged with participating in a video gaming theft ring that stole more than $100,000 across numerous counties, including Cook, Will, Kane and Kendall.

Moving abortion rights in particular out of the silo of “social issues” is what Anne Caprara – Governor JB Pritzker’s chief of staff and a longtime Democratic strategist – sees as a path forward for the party

Organized labor has been everywhere at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this week, from the main stage to the Illinois delegation’s morning breakfast gatherings

In the more than seven years since he declared his candidacy for governor, JB Pritzker has not shied away from pouring cash into not only his own election bids but campaigns up and down the ballot

Illinois delegates to the Democratic National Convention focused their attention Tuesday on reproductive rights, which some leaders say could eclipse the economy as a defining issue of the 2024 election campaign

Defense attorneys in a case linked to a Joliet shooting spree are awaiting "enormous" discovery from multiple states. A Joliet police spokesman said their investigation of the shooting is finished but motive "still unclear."

The Healthy Forests, Wetlands, and Prairies Act would require Illinois to establish a grant program for local governments to restore degraded forests and prairies. State Senator Rachel Ventura from Joliet sponsored the bill.

Gov. JB Pritzker kicked off the Illinois delegation’s Monday breakfast at a downtown hotel by thanking elected Democrats in the room “for the work that you’ve done to make this the greatest Democratic Party that Illinois has ever had and in the entire country.”

New additions to the Illinois State Museum’s art collection are on display at its Lockport Gallery through Oct. 12.

Amid a focus on Vice President Kamala Harris’ political future, Gov. JB Pritzker had an enigmatic comment about his own Monday during the Democratic National Convention

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, who is among the speakers expected to take the stage on the convention’s opening night, said on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday that the city was prepared for the thousands of activists expected to participate in protests around the DNC

A new law led opens the door for Illinois drivers to have their driver’s licenses on their phones.

The Plainfield School District 202 Board of Education may consider approving a settlement agreement in a federal lawsuit case involving allegations of hazing and sexual assault of two former football players.

Both parties in a Lockport double murder case are quarreling over allowing evidence of an alternate suspect at the trial.

Texas Roadhouse in Joliet will team up with Joliet police to raise money for Special Olympics Illinois on Monday.

An appeals court last week reversed state regulators’ approval of a permit for the Illinois portion of an 800-mile, high-voltage transmission line, setting up a possible fight at the state’s Supreme Court

Illinois Republicans say they are still as united about the upcoming election as they were at their national convention in Milwaukee last month, despite surge of enthusiasm for the Democrats’ new presidential candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris.

The cause of a crash on I-80 crash that left two people injured on Thursday morning still remains under investigation. The roadways have been re-opened.

Lane closures will take place Thursday night on Interstate 55 in Bolingbrook as part of the ongoing reconstruction of the interstate bridge.

Democrats gathered in Springfield Wednesday for their annual rally at the Illinois State Fair amid a surge of enthusiasm and a renewed sense of optimism about their chances of retaining the White House in November.

The Illinois attorney general’s lawsuit against Salem Village Nursing and Rehabilitation Center follows a $2 million default judgment issued against the Joliet facility on May 15 in a wrongful death lawsuit case.

Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday kicked off a decade-long process to address the needs of aging Illinoisans, signing an executive order to hire a chief planning officer within the state’s Department on Aging

A federal judge is ordering Gov. JB Pritzker’s administration to move the vast majority of those incarcerated at Stateville Correctional Center near Joliet out of the aging prison by the end of September, citing health and safety concerns posed by the facility.

Gov. JB Pritzker on Monday signed a measure designating the “giant puffball” as the state’s mushroom after signing hundreds of bills on Friday, completing action on legislation sent to him by lawmakers this spring.